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The world’s power grids, 50 million miles’ worth, need a major overhaul

The Verge: Energy

. | Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Governments and utilities need to add or replace the equivalent of virtually all the world’s power grids by 2040 to reliably keep the lights on while cleaning up pollution from the power sector. We are heading fast towards an electric future, and grids are the weakest link.”

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EPICS global research centre for 100% renewable power grids launched in US

Smart Energy International

The Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) centre has been launched at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD in the US. The UK team, which includes the universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Newcastle, is led by Mark O’Malley, professor of power systems at Imperial College. Have you read?

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Hitachi Completes Acquisition of ABB Power Grids to Tackle Renewable Energy’s Rise

GreenTechMedia

Japan’s Hitachi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in ABB Power Grids worth up to $7.8 billion, creating a new business aimed at tackling the renewable and distributed energy frontiers of the power industry. percent stake in the venerable power grids unit of the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant.

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Cutting carbon emissions on the US power grid: Online model enables users to calculate the least-cost strategy

TechXplore

To help curb climate change, the United States is working to reduce carbon emissions from all sectors of the energy economy. Much of the current effort involves electrification—switching to electric cars for transportation, electric heat pumps for home heating, and so on.

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Reactive Technologies: Pinpointing the Inertia of Renewable-Powered Grids

GreenTechMedia

Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. Reactive Technologies says its novel technology for measuring this critical aspect of grid stability can help them find answers. An increasingly valuable measurement for clean-powered grids.

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Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings

GreenTechMedia

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Shayle talks to CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren about carbon recycling and the big dent it could make in global greenhouse gas emissions. The Interchange is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

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Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings

GreenTechMedia

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Shayle talks to CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren about carbon recycling and the big dent it could make in global greenhouse gas emissions. The Interchange is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

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